What is one who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank called?
charlatan — One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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